Change agent

India should keep lines open to the Joe Biden camp

The Democratic National Convention, nominally located in Milwaukee but mostly virtual, began on Monday to officially elect Joe Biden, 77, and his part-Indian origin running mate Kamala Harris, 55, as the party’s presidential candidate in this November’s elections. This event represents the business end of a long election cycle when the party platform is formally articulated. Much attention has been focused on Ms Harris and her non-White origins but the policy stances laid out by Mr Biden in recent weeks raise the real prospect of change. Many of the issues he has articulated are standard middle-of-the-road Democrat positions. But they